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skinned a female, which contained an egg in the oviduct ; this was 

 of the usual Plover-shape with light blue ground, minutely spotted 

 throughout, but of course this may not have been the colour of the 

 egg when laid. It measured 1-6 X 0*8. 



Genus IV. HEMIPARRA. 



Type. 

 Hemiparra, De Filippi, A tti Soc. Ital. viii, p. 270 



(1865) H. crassirostris. 



Defilippia, Salvad., A tti Soc. Ital. viii, p. 273 



(1865) H. crassirostris. 



Bill moderate, culmen less than half the length of the tarsus ; a 

 marked swelling or dertrum towards the tip of both mandibles ; 

 nostrils linear in a groove extending nearly two thirds the length of 

 the bill ; no wattles ; wing with the first primary the longest ; a 

 sharp-pointed small carpal spine ; legs very long and slender, tarsus 

 with transverse scutes in front, reticulated, or partially so, at the 

 sides and behind ; hind toe present ; toes long and slender, with a 

 very slight basal web between the middle and outer toes. 



Only two species are included in this genus, which is confined 

 to East Africa from the Upper Nile valley to Natal. 



718. Hemiparra leucoptera. Long-toed Lapwing. 



Hoplopterus crassirostris (nee De Fil.) Layanl, Ibis, 1871, p. 105 [St. 



Lucia Bay]; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 669 (1884). 

 Lobivanellus albiceps (nee Gould] Holub $ Pels., Orn. Siid-Afr. p. 240 



(1882) ; Sharjje, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 667, 855 (1884). 

 Vanellus crassirostris, Scebohm, Gcogr. Distr. CJiaradr. p. 214, with fig. 



(1888). 

 Vanellus leucopterus, Beichcnow, Journ. Ornith. 1889, p. 265 ; Shelley, 



B. Afr. i, p. 189 (1896). 

 Defilippia leucoptera, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiv, p. 127, pi. vii, fig. 1 



(1896). 

 Hemiparra leucoptera, Reichenoiv, Vog. Afr. i, p. 185 (1900). 



Description. Adult. Forehead and eyebrow, sides of the face 

 and neck, chin and throat white ; back of the head, nape, upper 

 part of the mantle, sides and centre of the breast, black; lower 

 mantle, scapulars, and some of the inner secondaries, slaty-grey, 

 darkest on the rump ; rest of the wings, except the three outer 



